sarong

noun

1. a loose-fitting skirtlike garment formed by wrapping a strip of cloth around the lower part of the body, worn by both men and women in the Malay Archipelago and certain islands of the Pacific Ocean.
2. a cloth for such garments.

noun

1. a draped skirtlike garment worn by men and women in the Malay Archipelago, Sri Lanka, the Pacific islands, etc
2. a fashionable Western adaptation of this garment

n.skirt-like garment, the Malay national garment, 1834, from Malay sarung “sheath, covering.” OED traces it to “some mod. form of Skr. saranga “variegated.”